Cathy's Art Diary

Clever exhibition at the Nahmad Projects pairing works by 20th century artist Giorgio Morandi and contemporary artist Alexis Ralaivao. I’ve loved Morandi’s pale, repetitive still-lives since seeing a show of them at the Metropolitan Museum a number of years ago. They worked well with the detailed, concentrated work by Ralaivao. I particularly liked a picture of lemons and a knife by the latter artist which included the reflection of the yellow in the metal. Closed 26 July 2024  

Strange exhibition at Nahmad Projects of new work by Ksenia Pasyura. I say strange as they were paintings of rather surreal figures with exaggerated features and limbs which are evidently meant to lead you to question conventional ideas of beauty and identity. I liked the colour and vibrancy but they were not to my taste. However I am reading "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" at the moment which has a character with abnormally large thumbs so they did have a certain resonance for me at the moment.   This was another new gallery to me. There seems to be a rash of them at the moment. Closed 24 November 2023